Posted on 04/07/2010 2:56:41 PM PDT by 13Sisters76
I just wanted to let you all know some of the companies that have cancelled their sponsorship of Glenn Beck's show because of a left wing attack and threat of boycott.
"Among the advertisers to pull spots from the popular cable talk show are Geico, owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway; Procter & Gamble; Sargento Cheese; and Progressive Insurance , according to the companies and Color of Change, one group that is organizing a campaign against the program."
I got these names from Market Watch.
I am not suggesting what you should do, but I will be contacting these companies and adjusting my buying habits accordingly.
Can you get a link to your source please?
I can tell you that Progressive Insurance doesn’t boycott Glenn Beck . .I see their ads all the time. GEICO is another big advertiser.
Sargento Cheese and Apple are both boycotting Fox News however. And I am boycotting them.
I’m boycotting Beck for calling Geert Wilders a fascist.
I won’t be listening to him any more.
The funny thing is that the boycotts aren’t real effective without boycotting FOX network advertizers altogether.
FOX has the viewership and a smart advertizer is going to advertize where his product gets the greatest exposure.
You can bet all this has trickled down from the White House. Chicago-style extortion.. Advertisers sacrificing profit on a program with stellar ratings for “political correctness” aimed at pleasing the Marxists in power.
I picked up some more, but these are questionable since they came from a left loon site:
Wal-Mart, Best Buy, CVS, Travelocity, Allergan (maker of Restasis), Ally Bank, Broadview Security, and Re-Bath.
I’m checking on these before I email them.
They wouldn’t do this unless Beck were leavign a mark. Whatever else one might think aobut Beck, he’s doing a first-rate job of exposing the Left and its agenda.
What he’s not doing is exposing the pedigree of their ideas. No mention of Gramsci. No mention of the true extent of communism’s murderous history.
yes- it’s just marketwatch.com.
Since it is owned by the same company as Fox, I doubt it’s false “hope” (like on the leftie sites) and I don’t think they are lying.
Sounds a whole lot like Nixon’s enemies list, which as I recall the press went nuts over it. I wonder why they are so quite now?
Thanks for the information.
And also some advertisers are up in regard to contracts, and others jump on board. However, Fox News with Beck (subject at hand) is ranked in viewing to be in Front, book sales flourish, stage appearances sell out...sooooooooo those that suffered were advertisers???
I tried out the link and could not find the article you are referring to. Could you please post the link of the article, and not simply the web site that contains the article somewhere?
I didn’t particularly like how Beck treated Peter Boyles during Boyles’ interview of him when Boyles’ brought up the Obama documents issue. Beck then goes on his own show an hour or so later, doesn’t call Boyles by name, but ridicules his question by using a retarded voice. I wasn’t much of a fan in the first place, but to me, that told me he is not honest. He wouldn’t give Boyles a straight answer on the subject and then misrepresents how he reacted to it on his own program.
It has been rumoured that there is yet another smear campaign that is picking up. The second article refers to some data that appears suspect. It appears that all advertisers that ever stopped advertising are mentioned. Many are noted without a corporate statement mentioning their reasons. Remember, a sponsor may stop advertising for a variety of reasons.
There probably are companies that will not sponsor Beck. However, the boycott appears to be more hype than actuality, and lacks a lot of details.
Yes, you are correct -- advertisers pull their advertising at their own risk.
Forbes
Glenn Beck Inc
Lacey Rose, 04.08.10, 04:30 PM EDT
In his empire there's the ideology--and then there's the money machine.
He (reportedly) gets $13 million a year from print (books plus the ten-issue-a-year magazine Fusion). Radio brings in $10 million. Digital (including a newsletter, the ad-supported Glennbeck.com and merchandise) pulls in $4 million. Speaking and events are good for $3 million and television for $2 million. Over several days in mid-March Beck allowed a reporter to follow him through his multimedia incarnations, with one exception, his 5 p.m. daily show on Fox News, which attracts just under 3 million viewers.
Hannity, Rush and Beck seem to attract the same "staying power" advertisers, however; and said companies are richer for it.
Who needs hamburger helper when you have filet mignon?
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Yeh, and you can Tweet a Haiku to him too today, since today a Social Justice group is trying to get a Haiku Tweet Storm going toward him too.
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